Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking of a Hinged Flapping Filament Generates Lift A. Bottaro (DICCA, University of Genova) S. Bagheri (KTH, Stockholm) A. Mazzino (DICCA, Genova) J. Favier (AMU, Marseille) A. Dauptain (CERFACS, Toulouse) EPFL, Nov. 27, 2012
Advantage/disadvantage of passive flexible parts/appendages in animal propulsion?
Re << 1, micro-organisms use non-reciprocal waves to move (no inertia symmetry under time reversal)
Re << 1, micro-organisms use non-reciprocal waves to move (no inertia symmetry under time reversal)
Re << 1, micro-organisms use non-reciprocal waves to move (no inertia symmetry under time reversal) Re >> 1, birds/fish use reciprocal flapping for lift and/or propulsion
Re << 1, micro-organisms use non-reciprocal waves to move (no inertia symmetry under time reversal) Re >> 1, birds/fish use reciprocal flapping for lift and/or propulsion Heaving, rigid, symmetric foil (thrust) (inverted von Karman vortex street)
Re << 1, micro-organisms use non-reciprocal waves to move (no inertia symmetry under time reversal) Re >> 1, birds/fish use reciprocal flapping for lift and/or propulsion Heaving, rigid, cambered foil (plus lift)
Re << 1, micro-organisms use non-reciprocal waves to move (no inertia symmetry under time reversal) Re >> 1, birds/fish use reciprocal flapping for lift and/or propulsion Heaving, flexible, cambered foil (plus ) J. Guerrero, PhD Thesis, 2009, UNIGE
Some animals live between these worlds: Re 10-100 (and present flexible appendages) Clione Antarctica ( sea slug ), a marine mollusc which switches mobility strategy with adulthood: rowing cilia flapping wings Childress & Dudley, JFM 2004
Some animals live between these worlds: Re 10-100 (and present flexible appendages) Clione Antarctica ( sea slug ), a marine mollusc which switches mobility strategy with adulthood: rowing cilia flapping wings Pleurobrachia Pileus (comb-jelly), a member of the Phylum Ctenophora which moves in water thanks to the rythmic beating of eight rows of cilia. Childress & Dudley, JFM 2004
Some animals live between these worlds: Re 10-100 (and present flexible appendages) Dauptain, Favier & Bottaro, JFS 2008 Pleurobrachia Pileus (comb-jelly), a member of the Phylum Ctenophora which moves in water thanks to the rythmic beating of eight rows of cilia
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Is there some dramatic change in the interaction between a free body and a fluid as Re What is the role of apparently inert filaments/cilia/tentacles/scales/feathers?
Symmetry breaking! Filament flap asymmetrically: - induced force and torque - reduced drag
The numerical method
The numerical method: IBM Flow field: Eulerian grid Boundary: Lagrangian points Boundary force to enforce no-slip condition Projection method (Taira & Colonius, JCP 2005)
The numerical method: IBM + the flexible filament z = z(s,t) s: arclength : Euler-Bernoulli Peskin, Acta Numerica 2002 Kim & Peskin, PoF 2007
The cylinder alone: symmetric wake Williamson, ARFM 1996 (classical von Karman vortex street)
The filament alone: symmetric flapping T = z ss = z sss = 0 @ s = L s (filament free end) z = z ss = 0 @ s = 0 (hinged position)
The filament alone (soap film experiments) flapping stretched Zhang, Childress, Libchaber & Shelley, Nature 2000 Shelley & Zhang, ARFM 2011
The filament alone (theory) Inviscid flow theory: vortex sheet (filament) + shed free vortex sheet Biot-Savart integral (for velocity to the filament) + Euler equation R 2 Alben & Shelley, PRL 2008
The filament alone (numerical simulations)
Cylinder + filament: something happens
Re = 100, R 1 = 0.1, R 2 = 0.005, L = 3 and L = 1.5 Bagheri, Mazzino & Bottaro, PRL 2012
increasing R 2 increased rigidity of the structure
Choice of observable 0.1 0.005
A symmetry-breaking bifurcation occurs when vortices and structures resonate
Beam equation
Resonance condition filament with slow reaction time filament reacts instantaneously
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Resonance
Resonance
Can filaments increase drift?
Can filaments reduce drag optimally (because of compliance) as opposed, i.e., to the (sub-optimal) pressure drag reduction of golf balls?
How to model a passive, compliant hairy/feathery coating? Penguins Sharks Seals sea otter egret
GOAL: instead of a single flexible flap, let s model a continuous hairy/feathery coating to affect lift and drag
Numerical challenges Model mechanical properties of biological surfaces Structures with large displacements and large rotations Interaction between multiple structures Coupling between a layer of oscillating densely packed structures and a unsteady separated boundary layer
The initial configuration fluid fluid + solid solid Circular cylinder, Re=200 Model of the layer? Porous, anisotropic and compliant
Tfluid 4 Tstructure
Aerodynamic performances <C d > C d ' C l ' St Case 1 1.3689 (1.39;1.356) 0.0274 0.4381 0.199 (0.199;0.198) Case 2 3.1464 0.1943 1.1376 0.1946 Case 3 1.3035 0.0207 0.3839 0.1916 Case 4 1.2109 0.012 0.3008 0.1661 (Bergmann et al., PoF 2005 ; He et al., JFM 2000)
Aerodynamic performances <C d > C d ' C l ' St Case 1 ref ref ref ref Case 2 +130% +608% +160% -2.21% Case 3-4.78% -24.54% -12.37% -3.71% Case 4-11.54% -56.09% -31.34% -16.53%
Physical mechanism Difference of time-averaged pressure field <P with hair>-<p ref>
Physical mechanism Contours of vertical velocity Movements of reference cilia Contours of vertical velocity Force field The hairy layer counteracts flow separation
Optimal self-adaptive hairy layer 15% drag reduction 40% reduction in lift fluctuations Favier, Dauptain, Basso & Bottaro, JFM 2009
Consider a airfoil: the control elements (the feathers ) must be placed in the position of largest sensitivity to achieve an effect
Consider a hairfoil: the control elements (the feathers ) must be placed in the position of largest sensitivity to achieve an effect
(simulations) Potential applications: MAV/UAV Wind turbines Hydraulic machines (cavitation?) Sound mitigation Venkataraman & Bottaro, PoF 2012
Kunze & Brücker, CRAS 2012 (experiments)
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